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Our Confessions

As a Reformed and confessional Presbyterian church we trace our historical roots back to the Apostles of Jesus Christ through the Protestant Reformation and the ecumenical creeds. With minor revisions, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church has adopted the Westminster Standards (1647)as its secondary standards – the Bible itself being the only infallible rule of faith and practice. Officers in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church take a vow to “sincerely receive and adopt” these confessional documents “as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures.”

“We venerate these standards, partly because they embody the wisdom of an august Synod; because they come down to us associated with the memory and faith of saints and martyrs and embalmed with their blood; but we love them most because they contain the truth of God–that truth which forms the foundation of our hopes. As our fathers prized them, and we prize them, so may our children and our children’s children love and preserve them.”